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From: grover%brahmand@Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Inheritence and Delegation
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Date: 7 Oct 89 16:26:21 GMT
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I once read that the inheritence mechanism is a special case of a more
general phenomena called Delegation. I cannot come up with the reference
but unless I am mistaken I think it was an article written by Stefik and
Bobrow in the AI Magazine a few years ago. 

Since I have been out-of-touch with OO stuff for a couple of years, can
anyone tell me if there has been any recent work done on the semantics of
inheritence and/or delegation? 

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Vinod Grover
grover@sun.com
(415)-336-5570